In Wang v. Maserati N. Am., Inc., C.A. No. 23-2402, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 61446, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (District Court) considered the admissibility of the opinions of plaintiffs’...more
In State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. a/s/o Miriam Perez v. Pentair Flow Techs., LLC No. 7:21-CV-6679, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36875, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (District Court) reconsidered...more
4/2/2025
/ Evidence ,
Insurance Litigation ,
Manufacturers ,
Motion for Reconsideration ,
New York ,
Product Defects ,
Property Damage ,
State Farm ,
Strict Product Liability ,
Subrogation ,
Summary Judgment
The court granted the third-party defendant’s first motion to dismiss for lack of general jurisdiction but permitted the parties to conduct jurisdictional discovery. After the close of jurisdictional discovery, the...more
1/23/2025
/ Damages ,
Data Breach ,
Discovery ,
Due Process ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Jurisdiction ,
Manufacturers ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Negligence ,
Personal Jurisdiction ,
Product Defects ,
Specific Jurisdiction ,
State and Local Government ,
Subrogation
In State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Wangs Alliance Corp., No. 21-cv-10389-AK, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26712, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (District Court) considered whether a product...more
3/11/2022
/ Apportionment ,
Construction Defects ,
Construction Industry ,
Contractors ,
Contribution Claims ,
Manufacturers ,
Property Improvements ,
State and Local Government ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Statute of Repose ,
Subrogation ,
Third-Party
In United Services Automobile Association v. Broan-Nutone, LLC, No. 218-2017-CV-01113, the Superior Court of Rockingham County, New Hampshire recently considered whether the eight-year statute of repose for improvements to...more
In Kohler Co. v. Superior Court, 29 Cal. App. 5th 55 (2018), the Second District of the Court of Appeal of California considered whether the lower court properly allowed homeowners to bring class action claims under the Right...more
In Kim v. Toyota Motor Corp., 6 Cal.5th 21 (Cal. 2018), the Supreme Court of California considered whether the trial court properly allowed the defendant to introduce evidence of industry custom and practice in defense of a...more